Accommodation & Food Services · Laredo, TX
Koto Sushi Bar
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $9,109 in back wages owed to 8 affected workers across 1 wage-theft case.
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- OSHA penalties
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- Violations cited
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- OSHA inspections
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- Back wages owed
Koto Sushi Bar in Laredo, TX has been the subject of 0 OSHA workplace inspections and 0 citations since 2010, according to enforcement records from the U.S. Department of Labor. Separately, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found $9,109 in back wages owed to 8 affected workers. All enforcement data below is sourced from the DOL public enforcement databases at data.dol.gov.
Compliance score
- C Wage & hour compliance: $9K in back wages owed across 1 WHD case ($9K per case), vs. national p10 $2K (best) / p90 $58K (worst) among 91,622 employers with a WHD case on file.
Channels are separate federal datasets: a dimension marked not applicable simply has no record in that dataset for this employer, not a good or bad score.
Koto Sushi Bar in the Accommodation & Food Services enforcement ledger
On wage-and-hour enforcement alone, Koto Sushi Bar ranks #10,302 among 22,851 Accommodation & Food Services employers with WHD recoveries ($9,109). Koto Sushi Bar carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #10,302 of 22,851 Accommodation & Food Services employers on WHD back wages ($9,109).
How Koto Sushi Bar Compares
Koto Sushi Bar in Laredo, TX has no OSHA inspection on record with PlainWorker. An absence of federal inspection activity is not the same as a clean safety record, it typically means this employer has not yet been selected for inspection under OSHA's targeting programs. By comparison, Moe's Southwest Grill in Lawrenceville, GA has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against Koto Sushi Bar to date. The Accommodation & Food Services sector average runs $670 per employer.
Wage & Hour Findings
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that Koto Sushi Bar owed $9,109 in back wages to 8 employees across 1 case and 10 violations. WHD enforces federal labor laws including the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), covering minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor standards.
Industry Safety Context: Accommodation & Food Services
How Koto Sushi Bar compares to the Accommodation & Food Services sector, which has 25,016 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | Koto Sushi Bar | Industry Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | 0 | 0.2 |
| Violations | 0 | 0.5 |
| Total Penalty | $0 | $670 |
| Avg Penalty per Inspection | $0 | $2,941 |
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What to do with this record
Use Koto Sushi Bar's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare Koto Sushi Bar against El Gato Cantina - Essex Jct, a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether Koto Sushi Bar's inspection and penalty record is typical for Accommodation & Food Services or an outlier against the sector's own average. View the Accommodation & Food Services sector
- Koto Sushi Bar also carries $9,109 in Wage and Hour Division back-wages, a separate enforcement track from OSHA safety violations. How wage-theft enforcement works
Figures reflect closed OSHA and WHD federal enforcement actions on record (2010–2026); not every workplace issue results in an inspection or investigation.
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Data as of 2026. Source: U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA, WHD).
Source: OSHA Enforcement Data
Inspection and violation records from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor, covering the period 2010–2026. Includes inspection dates, violation types (serious, willful, repeat, other-than-serious), and penalty amounts. Penalties shown are current assessed amounts and may differ from original citations due to settlement, contest, or reduction.
Source: Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Compliance actions from the WHD, covering enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), including minimum wage, overtime, and child labor violations. Back wages represent amounts owed to affected employees as determined by WHD investigations.
Employer Matching
Employers are matched across OSHA and WHD datasets by name, state, and city. Employers included in PlainWorker have 2 or more OSHA inspections or $1,000+ in WHD back wages. Data is updated monthly from data.dol.gov.